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Israeli and global leaders on Friday denounced a violent attack in Amsterdam on Israeli football fans, who called the incident a modern-day “pogrom.” The supporters – who were in the Netherlands to watch Maccabi Tel Aviv face Dutch club Ajax on Thursday night – said assailants carried knives and clubs and attacked anyone who looked Israeli. “It was a pogrom. If there had been internet in [1938], that’s what Kristallnacht would have looked like,” one victim told the Times of Israel newspaper, referring to a Nazi-era attack on German Jews. The incident, which was captured on social media, has sp…